Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 17109
Author(s): Yorke, Barbara
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Title : Carriers of the Truth: Writing the Biographies of Anglo-Saxon Female Saints [The author explores "vitae" of Anglo-Saxon women saints in which aspects of their actual lives were incorporated. Yorke argues that these elements were important for hagiographical purposes. Texts included in the study concern Edith, her mother Wulfthryth and cousin Wulfhild, Leoba, Mildrith, and Aethelthryth of Ely. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Professor Frank Barlow.   Edited by David Bates, Julia Crick, and Sarah Hamilton .   Boydell Press, 2006.  Pages 49 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2006.
2. Record Number: 5148
Author(s): Hen, Yitzhak.
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Title : Milites Christi utriusque sexus: Gender and the Politics of Conversion in the Circle of Boniface [The author argues that Boniface gave nuns new roles in inculcating Christian ideas and values; the author cites the case study of Leoba who had direct interaction with the people she had come to teach].
Source: Revue Bénédictine , 109., 40180 ( 1999):  Pages 17 - 31.
Year of Publication: 1999.
3. Record Number: 922
Author(s): Head, Pauline.
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Title : Integritas in Rudolph of Fulda's "Vita Leobae Abbatissae"
Source: Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. New Series , 13., 1 (July 1995):  Pages 33 - 51.
Year of Publication: 1995.